Announcements:
There is a UOM conference for nurses in gerontology on May 19th
and the annual Environmental Health Information Partnership conference in
March for those interested in attending a conference. Refer to Laurie for
further information.

Budget Review

SDS changes and official letter

Predictor letter approval

Official course evaluations by all faculty

Nursing pins

Teas Scores/testing letter

Website updates: minutes, application procedure, student
handbook

Advising in-house

IHS† scholarship deadlines

NEDDS in June

Kaplan

Orientation SLO

Make-up week work-Dawn Frank

Master calendar

Assessment

Student support/retention

Office coverage

CNA course Rapid City

†Proofing Candidacy Report

Strategic Planning tweaks

Civility

Commencement: 10:30

††††††††††††††† †Topic

Budget review

SDS changes and official letter

Predictor letter approval

Official course evaluations by all faculty

Nursing pins

TEAS scores and testing letter

Website updates-minutes, application procedure, student handbook

Advising in-house

IHS scholarship deadline

NEDDS: June 5,6

Kaplan

Orientation SLO

Make up week work- Dawn Frank

Master calendar

Assessment

Student support/ retention

Office Coverage

CNA course: Rapid

City

19. Proofing Candidacy ††††

††† Report

20. Strategic Planning ††

†††† Tweaks

Civility

††††

Adjourned 12:50

†††††††† †Discussion

Michelle will do a budget modification addressing† †negative
balances. Assessment and testing is in the negative so all lab fees will go
to this line item.† Other line items
are in the positive.

Students were overpaid last year under SDS.† Letters were sent to students that explain
the overpayment and ask for reimbursement. Current student SDS awards will be
reduced to keep students in compliance with SDS grant requirements. .

Tabled until more information gathered

Michelle suggests evaluation of all classes for
appropriate content. Since content is driven by NCLEX, Sharon suggests using
the NCLEX test blueprint as a guide for evaluating our courses.

President Shortbull has concerns about the cost of the gold
nursing pins. Michelle relates that pins are optional in other schools. Some
students have ethical concerns about using Black Hills Gold. †Michelle suggests using silver or other alloys.
Darcie reports her school pin cost at $28.00.

Michelle provided handouts with data comparing the TEAS test
score with NCLEX pass/fail scores. Michelle suggests using 50% or 52%. cut scores on TEAS for admission requirements. Pre-nursing
students will get a letter about the test and review books to study.

Michelle wants to update the nursing application form
clarifying due dates for various parts of the application. †The student handbook probably should be on
the website.

Michelle suggests inviting nursing students
majors to come to our building for advising by advertising a potluck/open
house/nursing fair during registration week or some other time.

We need to get the word out for pre-nursing and level 1
nursing students to apply for this highly competitive IHS scholarship.

The Kaplan representative will be here Feb. 7th.
Michelle would like us to write questions for him to address.

We need to write learning objectives for our nursing
orientation in August.

Dawn asks us not to schedule anything during making-up
week so we can work on assessment.

Michelle wants a master calendar with due dates each month
for common predicable events such as textbook orders etc.

Michelle received the analysis of our NCLEX scores. Our
studentsí scores in every category seemed to be around 50%.† There was no category that was especially
deficient.† The data given us was not
particularly helpful to us in determining areas for improvement.

Wendy is resuming success labs for Level 1.

Wendy suggests an alternative plan for office coverage in
the future and dates that Michelle needs for leave. Wendy showed faculty the application
file and checklist.

Laurie and Linda discussed a CNA course in Rapid City.

Michelle needs to revise the report, so there is further
work to be done before the report can be proofed.

Laurie wants to work on wordsmithing our strategic plan.

Laurie would like an update on classroom civility issues.
The Level II instructors have put the current seriously offending students on
contract.

†††††††† †Action

Continue to be frugal and adjust budget when needed.

Letters will be sent to past and current students
explaining the reduction, asking for repayment, and reiterating the full time
student requirement to be a SDS recipient.

We will each evaluate our courses for appropriate content using
the NCLEX blueprint and Laurie will compile the information in one document.

We will survey student sentiments about pin, no pin or
optional pin and seek input from them about precious metal composition
options/costs. †Darcie will continue to
research costs for silver and other alternatives.

Faculty voted unanimously to set the TEAS test pass score
for admission to the nursing school at 52%. A TEAS letter sent to pre-nursing
students will contain information on practice dates, test coaching
opportunities in Pine Ridge and Rapid City, review books, test dates and cut
scores. Linda and Laurie have volunteered coaching duties.

Linda will work on an updated application form. The
handbook and the updated application form will be put on the website. Faculty
voted unanimously to put meeting minutes in a secure section.

Michelle will explore this further.

Faculty will let Michelle know their plans to attend or
not.

Faculty will prepare for the visit by submitting
questions.

Faculty will work on orientation learning objectives.

Faculty will work on keeping schedule as free as possible.

Faculty will give input for calendar.

We will continue to work on evaluating the strengths and
weakness of our program by any means necessary.

Michelle will let us know her important dates for leave.† Faculty wants to hold off on an alternative
plan but will assist in filing application parts in the application file

Linda will look at the list of interested persons and
review possible dates.

Michelle will continue to revise report and submit to
faculty for review if time permits.

We will continue to tweak when time permits to be finished
by due date

We will continue to work on†

civility issues within ourselves and
our students. Wendy will try to address this issue in success lab with Level I
students.† Level II instructors will
continue to work with their students.